Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture, Miranda Corcoran (2022).

This review focuses on Miranda Corcoran’s monograph *Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture* (2022), which examines the figure of the teen witch as a cultural trope that reflects and shapes American understandings of adolescence, particularly girlhood, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Corcoran employs Deleuzian theories of embodiment and subjectivity to conceptualize the teen witch as a fluid, transformative figure that challenges fixed notions of gender and adolescence. The book traces the teen witch’s evolution through postwar literature and culture, the countercultural 1960s, postfeminist makeover narratives, and contemporary feminist activism, including representations of Black teen witches. Corcoran’s work contributes notably to girlhood studies and new materialist feminist scholarship by framing the teen witch less as a figure of witchcraft and more as a lens through which to understand the complexities of teenage girlhood in American culture.